Patricia Santy

Choosing the Right Stuff

The Psychological Selection of Astronauts and Cosmonauts

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For the first time the history of the psychological and psychiatric evaluation of astronaut and cosmonaut candidates is detailed. The general public and many professionals assume that psychological issues have been and will be extremely important factors in successful space exploration. This book, however, documents how NASA underutilized, downplayed, then ultimately ignored psychiatric and psychological characteristics in selecting astronauts, until very recently.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 712g
• ISBN-13: 9780275942366
• ISBN-10: 0275942368
• Artikelnr.: 21283655

Autorenporträt

PATRICIA A. SANTY is Consultation Liaison Psychiatrist at a large General Hospital in Michigan.

Inhaltsangabe

Tables and Figures Acknowledgments The Beginning of the Future
Project Mercury Introduction One of Those Interesting Social Phenomena
Gemini and Apollo Opening the New Frontier
Shuttle The Dual Role of Behavioral Sciences
Selecting
In and
Out Not Everyone Can Fly
The Psychiatric Evaluation The "Real" Psychological Stuff for Missions of the Future An Invitation to Orbit, Part 1
The European Space Program An Invitation to Orbit, Part II
Japan Enters the Space Age The Soviet Right Stuff Space Station, Lunar Base, Mars, and Beyond Appendixes Bibliography Index Photo Essay